On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Robert Elz wrote:
I'd suggest that the API (and hence the name) should be independent of any suggestion of transport technology (so should not involve IR) - there's no reason a bluetooth remote, or a 802.15 remote, or anything else (including 802.3, or RS232) should present a different interface to the application, it is the function the application cares about, not the signalling technique by which the user supplies that information to the system.
It depends what you mean by application. As I have stated before in this thread, /dev/remote isn't intended for direct use by the application that processes commands, they instead should talk to the userspace daemon which handles keymappings.
Jared